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Slow PC

Chris - Thecleancar

Posted 28 May 2006 - 12:33 PM

Chris - Thecleancar

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Hello

I've got Win XP Pro installed on a PC with a 1.7 ghz processor and 256 mb of Memory am I right in thinking that I really need 512mb or more to run this O/S. At times it seems rather slow to boot and to open applications.Is there anything I can do to speed things up temporarily until I can get some more memory installed.I have run defrag and cleanup from system tools Thanks

Retired Tech

Posted 28 May 2006 - 02:17 PM

Click start then run, type msconfig then press enter, click start up, click disable all then replace the ticks for the firewall, anti virus and any anti spyware programmes, click apply and reboot, tick do not start the configuration utility when windows loads